Our Lady of the Congo Cathedral
The Our Lady of the Congo Cathedral or simply Kinshasa Cathedral, is a religious building of the Catholic Church located in the Liberation Avenue in the city of Kinshasa, the capital and largest city of the African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The building was built in 1947 when the country was still under colonial rule of Belgium, who called the area "Belgian Congo". During the government of Mobutu the church it was also called "Cathedral of Our Lady of Lingwala" for the place where the temple is located, since both names coexist.
The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and functions as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa which was created in 1959 by the Bull "Cum parvulum" of the Pope John XXIII.
